The Great Race
1965, NR, 150 min.
Directed by Blake Edwards, Starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O’Connell, Vivian Vance, Dorothy Provine, Larry Storch, George Macready.
Edwards’ ode to slapstick follows the format of that other big mid-Sixties comedy, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, by sending a slew of cut-ups on a cross-country race.
This article appears in July 9 • 2004.
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